Hello

Our clinic is a very busy, mixed animal (predominantly small) practice. We are rapidly expanding in several different directions. Positions for exclusively small animal or mixed practice associates are available.  We are looking for individuals who are not afraid of hard work, to share in the rewards and gratification of practicing veterinary medicine.

We will never ask you to send a cat with a urethral obstruction back out the door or amputate the limb of a dog with a fracture or euthanize an otherwise treatable animal due to lack of money.

Quality of life is important for you too, not just our patients, and that involves the freedom to practice medicine the way that you feel is right, your protocols should not be dictated by a corporate boss. With our help, both emotional and financial, you can be the best veterinarian and the best you, that you can be.

As your potential employer, we recognize the need to be flexible, encouraging and supportive. We have a warm and friendly staff with many years of experience. Your schedule and special areas of interest are all up for discussion. New grads are encouraged to apply, we will provide all the mentorship you need.

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This is a tough time to be an experienced veterinarian if you want to do and be more than a shift worker for a larger veterinary conglomerate.   For one thing there is the pay.  Yes, by many standards you are paid well, but to be honest starting wages for new graduates with no experience are not that much lower than what an experienced veterinarian is offered.  Practice ownership used to be the way to get rewarded for all your hard work and expertise but that is a less realistic option currently, because private equity is dominating the market.  Metropolitan practices are valued in the millions while those in rural areas simply close the doors when their owners retire because no one will buy them.  This is causing a crisis in rural areas, leaving many communities without adequate veterinary care. Veterinarians employed by conglomerates have less control of the way they practice because someone else is calling the shots and for many this is a fair trade off for less demanding hours and the ability to pass the tough clinical cases off to someone else.  But is this really what you want?

 

We are in a time of accelerated change and AI systems are already better than people at spitting out lists of differentials and reading radiographs.  More and more of what used to be part of our regular workload gets referred to specialists.  That’s great for clients that can afford it but that is a very small percentage of pet owners and becoming less all the time. Pets with treatable conditions often go without treatment and veterinary medicine gets dumbed down to the point it can’t find its way out of a paper bag without an MRI.

 

AI and other technological wonders available to us now should be regarded as tools.  We need vets that can use them but can also think.  People that can adapt and think and still be practicing medicine with us when the big clinics start laying off help during the next economic downturn.  We want to build a long lasting, independent practice of free thinking veterinarians that have potential to turn into owners through sweat equity and continued service to our community.

 

We are looking for a few tough, smart individuals that realize veterinary medicine is not just a job but a vocation.  We can wait.

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E-mail inquiries or a cover letter and resume to kkidd@kennedyvet.com